Presets

Orbiter ships with two layers of presets: scene presets that configure everything at once for a particular mood, and instrument presets that just tweak a single instrument's tone.

Scene presets

Scene presets are one-tap moods that configure the entire generative sequencer and all three instruments together — tempo, note probabilities, rhythmic density, instrument tone, and modulation. They're the fastest way to start playing.

The three scene presets are Sleepy, Calm, and Melodic. See the Scene Presets page for what each one does and how seeds work.

Instrument presets

Each instrument has its own preset library that just sets that instrument's tone (brightness, decay, reverb, and so on) without touching the sequencer. Open an instrument in the Instruments view to see its preset picker.

Handpan: Pure Tone, Bright, Mellow, Resonant, Dry, Cathedral, 432 Hz.

Gong: Aggressive, Bright Crash, Classic Gong, Dark Ambient, Deep Crash, Gamelan, Meditation, Muted Gong, Opera Gong, Shimmer, Singing Bowl, Tam-tam, Temple Bell, Thunder Sheet, Wind Gong.

Bowl: Tibetan, Crystal Clear, Deep Meditation, Warm Resonance, Ethereal, Bright Strike, Temple.

Saving your own settings

Custom user presets aren't supported yet — what's listed above is the built-in library. Your last-used scene preset and any manual parameter tweaks persist across app launches, and any setup is captured by the share URL so you can save a particular sound by bookmarking its link.

In a DAW, the host's own preset / patch system stores Orbiter plugin state alongside everything else in the project, so you can save and recall plugin settings via your DAW the same way you would for any other plugin.